Introduction

What if you could ride a time machine back into the 19th century? You could canoe on pristine rivers and see millions of buffalo roaming the plains. For special entertainment, you could attend the local Camp Revival Meeting!

What? That’s not your cup of tea? Don't be so quick to judge. In this lesson, you will learn about the unique and distinct culture those great revivals helped create during the 19th century.

Drawing of a Methodist Camp Meeeting

Dubourg, M. (1819). Camp meeting of the Methodist in North America. Available at: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/98508274/

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Evaluate the impact of American social and political reform on the emergence of a distinct culture
  • Explain the impact of the Second Great Awakening on the emergence of a national identity.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: United States History I: Objective: 11.

This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standards: R1, R2, R8, R9, W1c, W2b, W2d, W4, W8 and W9.

 

 

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